Mladenovic held serve to narrow the deficit to 5-4, and Osaka faced another break point before wrapping up the match in one hour and 21 minutes for a third-round meeting with American Danielle Collins. "After that things went better for me", added the Serbian, who dominated the second set to book a third-round meeting with German Philipp Kohlschreiber, a 6-4, 6-4 victor over Australian Nick Kyrgios.

Williams lost the first set 6-3 to two-time major champion Garbine Muguruza and was trailing 1-0 in the second set when she called it quits.

Keen to avoid a repeat, Osaka marched through the opening set in 38 minutes, but she hit a speed bump as she was broken when serving for the match at 5-2 in the second.

Nishikori, ranked seventh in the world, opened his year by snapping a nine-match losing streak in finals, capturing his first ATP title in 51 tournaments at Brisbane in January.

The Chinese player nearly took the first set in a tight tenth game, holding two set points on the former world No. 10's serve. "I was just fighting in the first set to find that balance between being aggressive and not rushing too much".

"I learn the most when I lose matches, and honestly, it was great that I got to play her again because I was able to learn from the mistakes I did back then", Osaka said. "She has been playing so well and you never know what's going to come off her racket", Williams said in front of a fawning crowd in her native Southern California.

An outstanding break point saw Djokovic respond for 5-5 before Fratangelo grabbed the lead in the tie-break. I was so frustrated with myself from the half of the second set to the end, which shouldn't happen to me.

"I let her play her better game, so it's my fault, anyway".

The 25th-seeded American beat Belgian Kirsten Flipkens, 6-4, 6-1.

In another women's singles clash, Germany's Angelique Kerber eased past Yulia Putintseva of Russia 6-0, 6-2 to set up a round-of-32 clash against another Russian player Natalia Vikhlyantseva.

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CCTV footage showed her going to a nearby fast food joint on George Street around 2:15 am and then proceeded to her vehicle . A Telugu-origin doctor, Preeti Reddy, based in Sydney in Australia, was found murdered after she went missing five days ago.

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Nintendo accommodates this by having Switch controllers placed within reach inside each variation on Labo's goggle setup. Prior to its reveal , people were speculating about whether Nintendo would create a VR headset, but it never happened.

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After Thursday's attack, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah tweeted, "Tragic". Riyaz was injured in the blast at the General bus stand, succumbed at a hospital early Friday around 1:15 am, reports said.

Despite James' 17 points, the Lakers trailed powerful Denver 66-49 at halftime, seemingly headed to their fourth straight loss. It was one of many great plays that LeBron has made during his career, but it was also one of many shots that he's taken.

The Lakers had been leaning towards signing Anthony for the remainder of the season until losing four out of five games. LeBron hasn't missed the playoffs since the 2004-2005 season, but seems resigned to his fate this year.

Dozens of people were injured and about 100 houses were destroyed by 170 mile-per-hour (264 km-per-hour) winds, officials said. The tornado that hit Lee County this past Sunday is the deadliest tornado to hit the United States since 2013 .

She actually has an inner glow, bright light shining out from her hands. "It is surreal that the film is finally happening". This is the first Marvel movie since the death last November of Stan Lee, the founding father of Marvel Comics .

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